Congratulations are in order for Kendrick Lamar!
Less than two months after becoming available purchase, his Drake assisted single ‘Poetic Justice‘ has now sold enough copies to receive Gold Certification by the Recording Industry Association Of America.
Chart check below…
In the last week, the single sold a sweet 34,192 copies pushing its combined US sales to 515,811- landing the performer his first Gold single his launch number ‘Swimming Pools‘ reached the Platinum mark with over 1 million copies moved.
Fortunately for his field, he isn’t the only artist making chart gains this week. With 1,317,000 units sold worldwide, Alicia Keys’ ‘Girl On Fire’ LP stands as one of the highest selling R&B releases of the last two years, with 612,692 sold in the US since November 22nd 2012.
Elsewhere, global sales of Rihanna‘s ‘Unapologetic’ will no doubt give her much to smile about, seeing as they sit pretty at the 2,547,000 mark, led by the Sia penned classic ‘Diamonds‘ and helped by the Elijah Blake crafted ‘No Love Allowed‘.
Bruno Mars touches similar territory with his latest effort ‘Unorthodox Jukebox‘ which has now sold 2,480,000 globally as Nicki Minaj‘s debut album ‘Pink Friday‘ holds court at the 3 million mark, after helping the Rapper become the 8th female artist of Black descent to enjoy two or more US #1 albums.
On higher ground, Adele‘s ‘21‘ now boasts worldwide sales of 25,246,0000 while Usher’s 2004 release ‘Confessions‘ continues to reign as the last US album to be certified Diamond for sales of over 10 million units in the market. At present, its combined sales now sit at the 20 million + mark.
Congratulations to all!
30 COMMENTS
Mother Monster
March 16, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Two fucking flops like forreal…
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Shay
March 16, 2013 at 7:13 pm
BITCH! The only flops on this page are the ones sitting on your pale ass chest. I always see you up on here pumping your fat, insignificant fingers …. bitch die xoxox
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jamilaa
March 16, 2013 at 4:23 pm
congrats to ma gurls ALICIA,ADELE AND LOVELY RIRI! do ya thing!sam how is pink friday roman reloaded doing?? buhahahahahaahaaha!
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Lovebird
March 16, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Congratulations to all. I cannot wait for “Girl on Fire” to sell more copies than 4closure, that will give me life.
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Jewell
March 16, 2013 at 4:51 pm
You are so sad lol
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jamilaa
March 16, 2013 at 4:24 pm
and i just checked SAM! RIRI HAS SOLD 2.9M WORLDWIDE! NOT 2.5 U BUM! U TRIED IT THOU! FUCKING HATER!
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jamilaa
March 16, 2013 at 4:26 pm
NICKI IS COMBINED SALES WORLDWIDE AND US! I JUST CHECKED IT SAM BOO!
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Monstarebel
March 16, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Congratulations to Rihanna Alicia Kendrick & Nicki…. xoxo
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the real xoxo
March 16, 2013 at 4:33 pm
i hope Kendrick’s album goes platinum for the sake of mainstream hip-hop.
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HoneychildPlease
March 16, 2013 at 4:33 pm
Well damn fck me with a cold pipe…I didn’t think she even sold a million on that record..Congrats
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BITCH SHOW ME A DIPLOMA NOT UR NACKED PICS
March 16, 2013 at 5:13 pm
THATS WHAT HAPPEN WHEN UR TIRED HASS 2.5 DOLLAR WIG TRIES TO HATE ON REAL TALENT LIKE ALICIA KEYS. SHE JUST SNATCHED UR HEAD PIECE. BYE GURRRR!!!!
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HoneychildPlease
March 16, 2013 at 4:34 pm
@ Lovebird
you won’t be waiting long….
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Azealia Stanks #KuntBrigade
March 16, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Nicki Continues to slay!!!!!! Your Fav???
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Jewell
March 16, 2013 at 4:53 pm
Well done Alicia, she promoted that album so hard, she deserves it.
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Vee
March 16, 2013 at 5:08 pm
Congrats to them!
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Loyalty
March 16, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Good for Alicia <3
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QUEEN MINAJ
March 16, 2013 at 5:33 pm
i always slay
why am i not surprised
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caribbean native
March 16, 2013 at 5:53 pm
rihanna always slays world wide though this is not suprising unapologetic is such a work of art cngrats to nicki too love my island girlz
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NΛVI
March 16, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Congrats to all.. my fav riri slaying as usual and it’s great to see AK album selling so good..such a good album… for a sec i was a bit worried when the era just started but AK pull through, keep it up! See promo goes a longggggggggg way i hope CICI take notes.
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TAYLOR SWIFTS NUMBER 1 FAN!!!
March 16, 2013 at 6:15 pm
WW sales: @TaylorSwift13, Red 43,000 (4,924,000 total).
Hope her single 22 does well. I love it
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KING RIH
March 16, 2013 at 7:11 pm
this is an urban blog. Go away.
Urban pop dnt know that ho
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TAYLOR SWIFTS NUMBER 1 FAN!!!
March 17, 2013 at 9:35 am
katy perry, britney and rihanna are urban now? dont think so.
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IM A FREE B*TCH
March 16, 2013 at 11:47 pm
no one cares for that whore here
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Aishaaguilerakeystesfaye
March 16, 2013 at 11:30 pm
Go Alicia! Congrats to all.
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lola
March 16, 2013 at 11:54 pm
How the fuck is Riwhorna slaying with shitty album sales of just 2.5 million???? LMFAO, that’s pathetic. She will never, ever get at an ADELE’S LEVEL! She’s just a fast food artist.
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JOHNVIDAL
March 17, 2013 at 3:22 am
This is a weird post isn´t it?
Why the mix of new albums and old albums? Why Nicki Minaj first but Alicia´s last for example? Doesn´t make sense. You should have reported Alicia, Bruno and Rihanna sales. The others are old albums. You just wanted to make Nicki look good once more.
Anyway: Rihanna sales are so average after 7 years of non stop worldwide radio support. Congrats to Bruno, he has sold the same as Rihanna in one month less and based on pure talent. And congrats to Alicia for being over 600,000 in the USA despite not having too great first week sales and not really having radio hits this era like she used too. Good that she still can do this numbers after a decade slaying USA sales like Rihanna never will
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MISHKA
March 17, 2013 at 6:36 am
And children here said “Girl on Fire” was a flop SMH… Congrats Alicia !!!
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Jackieyonce
March 17, 2013 at 10:25 am
Congrats Alicia love her
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Nicky
March 17, 2013 at 10:26 am
When Ak make Forbes??? Ooooops
Pollster top 10 tours Ww?
Hahahajah don’t u love how rihanna is once again selling millions ??? Lmaooooo
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ENOUGH ONIKA (KMART QUEEN)
March 17, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Ok the ash on that negros hand in the above pic should be illegal.. Anyway, congrats Alicia!! Well deserved.
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